Expose yourself...through Facebook  

Posted by Chelsea Bruha in , ,

Facebook recently announced the new privacy settings that they are offering to the public. It encourages Facebook users to share the content you post on your profile, including status updates and photos. The goal was to make Facebook more of an open forum, especially since Twitter, blogs, and MySpace are open to all.  Marshall Kirkpatrick provides a negative argument when arguing with Barry Schnitt, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Policy at Facebook in his article(Click on his name to read it).

How do you feel about being encouraged to become less private and more public for all to see? Was the primary reason you joined Facebook to expose yourself to the world?

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Maria Mercedes Rodriguez   says December 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM

Due to Facebook's recent changes in privacy settings, the Electronic Privacy Information Center along with several other institutions such as the Center for Digital Democracy and the Consumer Federation of America have filed a complaint to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission). Their complaint focuses mostly on the fact that Facebook now shows your information to literally the entire web, unless you actively change the settings and decide not to. So now, your information is not only shown to the whole public, but at the same time to application developers who create games and programs for Facebook. However, Facebook states that these changes have been made in order to empower its users to select different pieces of information and updates to be shown to different people.

Haley Clint   says December 17, 2009 at 7:10 PM

It turns me off a little how Facebook claims that their recommended privacy settings are for our benefit. Releasing more personal information to the public does not do me any favors besides opening my profile up to unsolicited friend requests and advertisements. It simply allows its partnering applications and websites to have access to more information about users that they can compile and sell.

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